I’ll confess I don’t pop on social media much for personal use. Though I post daily and have the largest following I’ve had to date in my years of public commentary, I find it a pedantic way to pass the time.
I’d rather cheer on my sons’ Tae Kwan Doh tournaments or my daughter’s musical endeavors.
But sometimes, in the early morning, while it's still dark, I fall down the rabbit hole. This morning I awoke to a steady line of strangely reassuring posts.
First, you need to know that I follow many people I disagree with. I seek out what the other side is saying, and they say it all no place louder than in their feeds.
So this morning, screaming from the headlines of X, Instagram, and TikTok are the Bernie Sanders rallies from this weekend in Michigan and Wisconsin. Posters boasting videos with snarky captions like, “Look at the size of this crowd” or “Look how long the line is to get in.” The videos seem impressive until you learn that crowd sizes were 4,000 & 8,000, respectively, both in extremely purple states. Try to keep up here—Trump has still not held one but two rallies in the blue state of New Jersey, where the attendance meter tipped 120,000.
There’s also a good amount of support that says, “Bernie is the only Democrat leader that’s fighting.” And lots and lots of posts about the evil of D.O.G.E., Musk, and the 12 people who protested Tesla yesterday.
We drove past one of those protests yesterday on the way to the Tae Kwan Doh tournament. My kids started a conversation about who should hold the people accountable for flying the American flag upside down.
Then I did something I don’t normally do: I started reading comments. On platform after platform, Americans were calling out these ridiculous posts in real-time.
When some lie was posted about Trump abandoning Ukraine, someone was correcting it. When someone else would tell some lie about Musk firing veterans, there was the post saying, “You misspelled woke generals.”
Beyond that, the commenters would begin listing actual facts, many of which are from last Tuesday’s address to Congress.
The comments were generally smart, on point, and truthfully devastating to the embarrassing original posters.
Musk ran a poll on x/Twitter this week asking people’s responses as to whether they agreed with DOGE and its work thus far. The results were 89/11 in favor, with 39% saying “very in favor.”
On Thursday, CNN reported on a poll asking a similar question: 79/18 in favor of DOGE. The CNN anchor and correspondent were visibly shocked.
President Trump is an enormous student of his craft. In his first term, even with Russian hoaxes, a global pandemic, impeachments, and other nonsensical wastes of the taxpayer's time and money, he accomplished more in four years than any President to date.
In his first 50 days of term two, he is on pace to shatter his first term’s accomplishments.
His decision to go on the attack on behalf of the people of the USA against corruption, global imbalances in trade and revenue, women’s rights, expansion of American leadership globally, and ending wars has given his opposition actual anxiety.
The speaker of the “energized and enormous” crowd, Senator Sanders, best attempted to take Trump down by standing behind a sign that said “Fight Oligarchy” (which is actually more fitting to Soros than Musk) and resorting to quoting the founding fathers and Abraham Lincoln.
Meanwhile, with every cabinet head and department director undergoing thorough vetting and comb-books, Trump’s ability to stay on offense never goes off the clock.
The American people see the inherent waste and abuse as it’s being uncovered. They are staying on offense with the facts across the social media universe. Not dissimilarly, Musk stays on offense, digging deep into the areas the Democrats try to hide from him. Trump is on offense in international negotiations that will end wars and has already changed the global footprint.
Stay vigilant and lean forward; it’s working.
The other side believes that Bernie Sanders is the answer!
Shhhhhhhhh. This is fun.